The Frontier
PnblUhed by D. H. CRONIN
rtOMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor
and Manager.
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Official paper of O’Neill and Holt county.
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Address the office or the publisher.
The World-IIerald’s boodle charges
proved a mild sensation.
Mrs. Chadwick talks like she lias
something up her sleeve that she
hasn’t got.
Mrs. Chadwick gets ten years.
Other thieves have been known to
get fifteen for stealing a $30 steer.
Mr. Bryan is still optomistic. ne
says the democratic outlook at pres
ent is the most encouraging for years.
If Mr. Bryan can’t be president of
the United States he can be president
ofithe Nebraska Democratic Editorial
association.
The difference between republican
and fusion pass takers is that tiie
former preacli what they practice
while the latter preached what they
didn’t practice.
The Lincoln Star thinks the best
piece of legislation that could be done
would be tolblue pencil about seventy
five per cent of the state laws from
the statute books.
As a rejoiner to Mr. Bryan’s plead
ings for more democratic weekly news
papers in Nebraska, the Fremont
Tribune says, “What good does a
democratic weekly do if people don’t
read it?’’
The World-Herald executed a mam
moth piece of journalistic enterprise
for last Sunday’s readers. It was the
World-Herald’s fortieth anniversary,
but it went sixteen pages above its
age and put out a fifty-six pager.
“The crime of ’73‘” when silver was
“striken down," has been repeated
down in old Mexico. Mexico has tried
the double standard long enough to
know that the highest ideal of mone
tary science can not be obtained
thereunder.
The Wyoming court refused to
sever the tie that binds Col. and
Mrs. Cody as husband and wife. The
best thing the foolish old colonel can
do is to go home to his lawful wife
and spend his few remaining years
getting acquainted with his family.
President Roosevelt seems to be
perfectly at home before any sort of
an audience. He has words of wisdom
and counsel for all classes and can
entertain and instruct any assembly
of people from a convention of agricul
turalists to a medical meeting or
^woman’s congress.
now would you like to be a Russian
official? As indicating the power of
Russian terrorists to strike at any
time, it is related that when Gen.
Trepoff attended the funeral of
Sergius he appeared in civilian dress
in an effort to conceal his identity.
Next day he found the following let
ter on his desk: “Monsieur—We
regret that you were put to so much
trouble in devising a means of escap
ing from Moscow without being killed.
We desire to make your mind easy on
that score. You have nothing to fear
in the streets or in the theaters or in
any of the public places. YOU WILL
BE KILLED IN YOUR OWN BED
ROOM.”
Notwithstanding the good resolu
tions at the outset of the sess ion to
cut expenses short, it seems that the
present legislature is going to outdo
the last in appropriations, .ffhe ex
penditure of close to four mill ions has
been provided for and according to
present plans the state indeljfcedness
will be increased some two hundred
thousand instead of being decreased
as looked for. The legisla'oors may
know what they are doing, lout ta the
average tax payer it looks like a false
method of financing to continual!)
bring the expenditures beyond the
receipts. It seems that the demand
for “a short, business-like session” ol
the legislature has not been met by
the twenty ninth Ression.
The Stuart Ledger attempts tc
create the impression that The Fron
tier lays the blame for the failure oi
the Elkhorn Valley bank onto the
fusion political party. This is as silly
as it is unjust. The esteemed Ledgei
owes it to itself and to its readers tc
keep matters straight. No reference
was ever made to anything of a politi
cal nature in these columns in connec
tion with the bank failure until the
local fusion organ made its senseless
attack where it attempted to impute
the failure to the republican party.
We repeat what we said in a former
issue: “No one but a knave would say
that the fusion party, the republican
party or any political party was in
anyway to blame for this robbery.”
A local fusion chief threw down the
gauntlet and he probably got what he
wasn’t looking for.
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TOWNSHIP MEET! NG
The annual township meeting is
provided for by Sec. 4546 of Cobbey’s
Statutes for 1003 and is as follows:
The citizens of the several towns of
this state, qualified by the constitu
tion to vote at general elections, shall
assemble and hold annual town meet
ings at their respective towns on the
first Tuesday in April at such place in
such town as the electors thereof at
their annual town meetings shall from
time to time appoint. All notices of
the time and place of holding such
meeting, after the first meeting shall
be given by the town cierk by posting
up a written or printed notice lin
three of the most public places in
said town, at least ten days prior to
said meeting.
as aoove stated tne law maxes it
the duty of the township clerk to post
notices at least ten days prior to the
date of the regular meeting. It is
evident that these notices have not
been posted by the township clerk as
we have failed to find any one who
has seen any such notice.
This fact cannot deprive the
electors of this city and township
from holding their annual meeting on
Tuesday, April 4,1905.
All electors of the city and township
should assemble at the court house on
Tuesday,April 4,at 2 p. m. It is at this
meeting that the township levies are
made and every tax payer should be
present and acertain how the business
affairs of the township are conducted.
Do not forget the date—at the court
house, Tuesday, April 3, at 2 p. m.
Publicity A Foe to Crime.
Sioux City Tribune: Under this
caption the Rev. John Clarence Lee,
of Trention, New Jersey, delivered an
excellent' address recently in the
above city which was full of praise for
the modern newspaper. Among other
splendid things he said: “The first
function of the newspaper is the
gathering and narration of news.
The world is made up of both good
and evil. The newspaper in perform
ing its function of narrating the his
tory of the day, is obliged to take
cognizance of both. However we may
regret the existence of evil, it cannot
be said that it would be best to ex
clude the account of it from the
public press. Publicity is a foe to
crime. It is one of the means by
which the way of the transgressor is
made hard. It a part of the retibu
tion of sin. Many a grave wrong lias
been unearthed by the faithful repor
ter, and the criminal, therefore,
brought to the condemnation he
leserved.”
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v 10 pivuuj VI gvvu U1VUV 111 till!}
statement of the reverend gentleman.
It takes a correct perspective of the
situation and sets forth in clear and
lucid light.
To be sure, there are, and always
will be in every community, certain
pious souls who almost loathe the
prominence given by the newspapers
to crimes committed. They say that
it seems to be the aim of the news
papers to parade the obnoxious and
diabolical things before the world and
color the m and sometimes to distort
them; |that they are beyond recogni
tion. This they are pleased to call
“yellow j ournalism. ”
Without vitiating in the least the
fundamei ital principle involved in the
above qu< >ted remarks from Dr. Lee,
it may be admitted that comparative
ly few nev vspapers are addicted to this
habit, the ir chief aim being to proper
ly expose the wrong done to society
and thus protect society from a recur
rence of it .
Hut the question involved in Dr.
Lee’s state :ment is, “Is publicity a foe
to crime?” Does it have the tendency
to lessen ci 'ime? Or does it, as some
moralists maintain, tend to educate
people to look wiMi complacency upon
Liioso things which are heinous in the
sight of God and man/
These questions cannot be answered
categorically, but iaigcly hypothetic
ally. From the standpoint of the
reader, purely, they would seem to
admit of but one answer. But from
the standpoint of the trained reporter
they convey a different answer. For
he knows full well how even the demi
monde hate to be exposed in the
newspapers. Crime seeks to hide
itself and those who are constantly
engaged in its propagation are loath
to be brought out in the clear lime
light of truth and exposed.
There is no doubt in the mind of a
newspaper man that the aggregate of
mankind do not seek unfavorable crit
icism. This is something they don’t
want. The moral element in every
community will thereafter know them
and spot them. They are branded
from the moment the newspaper
makes the expose.
However much the moralist and
purists may lament this wholesale
and, as they term it,needless exposure
of crime it transpires that after all it
works out for the betterment of so
ciety. Crime dare not Haunt itself
brazenly before the public without
getting corruscatingly into print.
Could all moral and religious teach
ers view this matter from the stand
point of the public press, they would
be led to radically change their views
as to the publicity of crime and they
would see that exposure is one of the
greatest foes to its repetition, even as
the sunlight and oxegen are to the
nefarious work of the deadly baccilus.
Homeseekers Excursion.
Via Great Northern Line on first
and third Tuesdays each month to
points north and west.
Itate, one first class fare plus $2
return limit 21 days, stopovers allowed
at intermediate points.
Full particular may be had from
any Agent Great Northern Line or
Fred Rogers, G. P. A., Sioux City,
Iowa. 34-4m
Another Method of Graft
Rushville Recorder: In our humble
opinion if every merchant kept scales
large enough and took the trouble to
weigh their freight they would have
some additional information as to
how the railroads get rich by charging
for freight they never carry. Last
week one of our merchants was charg
ed 300 pounds freight, when the
actual amount was only 150 pounds.
The same week the Recorder was
charged 110 pounds freight for a pack
age that only weighed 75 pounds.
Nearly every week we are charged five
to seven pounds more freight on our
prints than they came to, and if every
merchant in the state is being charg
ed in the same proportion the rail
road companies are guilty of petty
robberies that must aggregate an
enormous sum annually.
Very Low Excursion Rates to
San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via the North-Western Line, will
be in effect from ali stations April 10
14, inclusive, with favorable return
limits, on account of meeting Wood
men of the World. Two fast trains to
California daily. “The Overland
Limited” (electric lighted through
out), less than three days en route.
Another fast train is “The California
Express” with drawing room and
tourist sleeping cars. For rates,
tickets, etc., apply to agents Chicago
& North-Western R?y.
TTonlf TU nf l>n vc I
Mothers should always keep in good
bodily health. They owe it to their
children. Yet it is no unusual sight
to see a mother, with babe in arms,
coughing violently and exhibiting all
the symptoms of a consumptive ten
dency. And why should this danger
ous condition exist, dangerous alike to
mother and child, when Dr. Bochee’s
German Syrup would put a stop to it
once? No mother should be without
this old and tried remedy in the house
—for its timely use will promptly cure
any lung, throat or bronchial trouble
in herself or her children. The worst
cough or cold can be speedily cured by
German Syrup; so can hoarseness and
congestion of the bronchial tubes. It
makes expectoration easy, and gives
instant relief and re-freshing rest to
the cough-racked consumptive. New
trial bottles, 25c; large size, 75c. At
all druggists.
Colonist Rates West.
Via the Great Northern, daily,
March 1st to May 15th, 1905, to all
points in Montana, Idaho, Washing
ton, Oregon and California.
Two through trains to the Cost
daily. Apply to any Agent, Great
Northern Line for rates, maps, des
criptive matter etc., or to Frea
Rogers, G. P. A., Sioux City, Io. 34-3m
Best Remedy for Constipation.
“The finest remedy for constipation
I ever used is Chamberlain’s Stomach
and Liver Tablets,” says Mr. Eli But
ler, of Frankville, N. Y. “They act
gently and without any unpleasant
effect, and leave the bowels in a per
fectly natural condition.” For sale
by P. C. Corrigan.
The Frontier $1.50.
Light I
bread is digestible.
Sweet
bread is nutritious.
Wonderful
bread — light
and sweet, is
made with
YEAST
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Yeast Foam is the wonderful
yeast that took the First Grand
Prize at the St. Louis Exposi
tion and is sold by all grocers at
5c. a package—enough to make
40 loaves. Send a postal card
W for our new illustrated book
“Good Bread: Howto Make It.’’
NORTHWESTERN YEAST GO.
CHICACO. ILL.
Proper treatment of Pneumonia.
Pneumonia is too dangerous a
disease for anyone to attempt to doc
tor himself, although he may have the
proper remedies at hand. A physi
cian should always be called. It
should be born in mind, however,
that pneumonia always results
from a cold or from an attack
of the grip, and that by giving
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy the
threatened attack of pneumonia
may Ibe warded off. This remedy
is also used by physicians in the
treatment of pneumonia with the best
results. Dr. W. J. Smith, of Sanders,
Ala., who is also a druggist, says of it:
“1 have been selling Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy and prescriding it in
my practice for the past six years. I
use it in cases of pneumonia and have
always gotton the best results.” Foe
sale by P. C. Corrigan.
The North-Western Line.
One of the most interesting series
of articles on the subject of the great
railways of the country that has ap
peared recently, is that from the pen
of Frank H. Spearman, recently
published in the Saturday Evening
Post, and since printed in book form
by Scribners. The chapter descrip
tive of the Chicago & North-Western
Ry. has been published by the passen
ger department of that line in pamph
let form for general distribution, and
will be sent to any address on receipt
of 2 cents for postage. W. B.
Kniskern, P. T. M., Chicago. 36-4
It Saved His Leg.
P. A. Danforth of LaGrainge, Ga.,
suffered for six months with a fright
ful running sore on his leg; but writes
that Bucklen’s Arnica Salve wholly
cured it in five days. For Ulcers,
Wounds, Piles, it’s the best salve in
the world. Cure guaranteed. Only
2oc. Sold by P. C. Corrigan,druggist'.
A new folding bed and a new sew
ing machine for sale; inquire of M. M.
Sullivan, O’Neill, Neb. 37-3
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have one. Open an account with
O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK
You’ll find yourself watching your
expenditures much more carefully
when you pay check.
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seedings. Rose bushes and ornamental shrubs.
ELM AND ASH
Trees are the hardiest, longest liv
ing trees, and are the best shade trees
for the street or park. A tine lot of
10 and 12 foot trees for sale.
ASPARAGUS
A sparagus is so easilp grown and
such a large quantity is produced on
a small amount of ground that every
grand2n should contain y bed. A bed
10 foot square requiring 50 plants will
give an abuudant supply of any ordin
ary family. Apirl and Mav is the best
time to plant. We have the largest
and best flavored variety.*
DELICIOUS
STRAWBERRIES
Most everybody likes strawberries
and thy are the moso easily grown of
any kind of fruit as well as the most
healthful and delicious and they bear
a full crop of fruit the next year after
planting. From 300 to 500 plants
make a good sized bed planted one
foot by three foot. We have the
biggest self-fortilizing kinds. j
SWEET PRUNE PLUM
September 1, 1903, three bushels of
plums were picked from one five year ;
jld tree in E. D. Hammond’s orchard ;
Df Sweet Prune plums. The tree com
menced to bear two years after plant- :
ing and is bearing every year. It is
the only Prune Plum that has been a ;
success with me and I have tried i
many kinds. It stood the dry years, i
1893 and 1894, and the hard winter of i
1899 and bore fruit the following sea- i
son. It is a grand success for North- <
eastern Nebraska. It is a dark purple
in color, large size, skin can be easily
removed and can be pitted like a free
stone peach. They are excellent for
canning and preserves and are so
sweet that they require very little
sugar. I sold this plum at $2.50 to
83.00 a bushel the past season when
Dther varieties of sour plums were
selling for 75 cents to a $1.00 a bushel.
It has taken first premium at the
Lincoln State fair, and limbs ana
brances loaded with plums, shipped to
the Pan-American exposition at
Buffalo, New York, were shown in the
Nebraska fruit exhibt that took one
sf the gold medals. I also received an
honorable mention dipioma on this
plum from the Pan-American exposi
tion. We believe this plum has more
?ood vualities, and is the best plum in
3xistance for this whole northwestern
jountry. If you plant some of these
trees you will be well paid.
We have a choice fine lot of five to
six foot trees to seel for the Spring of
905. These treets were grown from
'rafts cut off these bearing treets that
lore these plums, and they will bear
ruit at two or three years old if
slanted and are sute to be genuine. If
mu want some of these trees send
mur order early and get the best
slum in existence. Trees five to six
eel $1.25 each; $12.00 per dozon.
Six trees for $0.00. The only way
mu can be sure of gettitg this plum
rue to name grafted from my bearing
,rees is to send your order direct to
ne. Trees delivered free to any rail
oad town. Call at Norfolk Nursery,
ir address,
E. D. HAMMOND, Norfolk, Nebraska
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